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Dear Oliver : uncovering a Pākehā history /
When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family e...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Auckland, New Zealand :
Massey University Press,
2018.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experienced the war against Te Kooti, the Boer War, the Napier earthquake of 1931 and the Depression. They rose from servant status to the comforts of the middle class. There was army desertion, suicide, adultery, AIDS, secrets and lies. There was also success, prosperity and social status. In digging deep into their stories, examining letters from the past and writing a letter to the future, Peter Wells constructs a novel and striking way to view the history of Pākehā New Zealanders. |
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| Item Description: | Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title may not be functional. Archived by the National Library of New Zealand in epub. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (some colour) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780994147370 0994147376 0994147368 9780994147363 |